Can you regulate a right and should you be able to?
Re: Can you regulate a right and should you be able to?
by The Comrade » Fri Jan 04, 2013 3:39 am
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Re: Can you regulate a right and should you be able to?
by exploited » Fri Jan 04, 2013 9:11 am
Yes. Even suggesting that natural rights are obsolete and in need of an overhaul means that I favour joining the Borg Collective, or the Nazi Party, or both.
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Re: Can you regulate a right and should you be able to?
by J.K. Gregg » Fri Jan 04, 2013 9:17 am
Maybe a thread could be made dedicated to the nature of individual rights?
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Re: Can you regulate a right and should you be able to?
by J.K. Gregg » Fri Jan 04, 2013 9:55 am
You, and everyone else, have one primary right in which all others stem -- the right to your own life.
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Re: Can you regulate a right and should you be able to?
by J.K. Gregg » Fri Jan 04, 2013 10:03 am
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Re: Can you regulate a right and should you be able to?
by exploited » Fri Jan 04, 2013 10:05 am
Once rights become contextual, they fail to be rights, and become privileges. You have the privilege of speaking freely - largely because you live in a collective that values those things, and for no other reason. The whole idea of a "contextual absolute" makes literally no sense at all.
Rights are not "inherent." They are not "natural." They do not exist regardless of what the government does. They are social constructs, and as social constructs, they need to be able to account for social actions, including extreme ones. And so they categorically fail.
Rights are not "inherent." They are not "natural." They do not exist regardless of what the government does. They are social constructs, and as social constructs, they need to be able to account for social actions, including extreme ones. And so they categorically fail.
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Re: Can you regulate a right and should you be able to?
by J.K. Gregg » Fri Jan 04, 2013 10:09 am
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